Theos-Talk Archives (December 1995 Message tl00053)

In theos-l in several msgs in the past a mention was made about
the lessons and guidance etc. There is a great interest in the eastern
philosophy and practices at the current time.
One of the issues that has been of concern to me is about the
practical "lessons" that one could try. I have seen some writers in
Theosophical Literature mentioning about the dangers of some of the
practices in the hands of a rookie who is self guided or guided by person
who may not be fully competent. I have indirectly known of two instances
where in two individuals came close to losing their mind for rest of this
life. So I am very hesitant.
In this context I recently saw TSA at Olcott sponsoring a program
on Hatha Yoga which specifically mentions guided "pranyama". May be it is
a good beginning that TSA embarks upon such programs. May be it is
potentially dangerous to the financial health of TSA. Say a participant
attends this program for which there is a fee and for some reason or other
gets into some psychiatric difficulties what is there to prevent TSA
getting sued as the course being the cause of the problem when the lawyers
find out about the deep pockets of TSA?

I thought I share the above with you all.

...doss